Brexit Secretary’s ex-aide calls for new ‘Democrats’ party to reverse the EU exit ‘catastrophe'

Brexit is a “catastrophe” that should be “reversed,” according to James Chapman, the former chief of staff to Brexit Secretary David Davis. He called on europhile MPs from across parliament to combine in a new pro-EU party.

Chapman, who was also director of communications to former Chancellor George Osborne, tweeted it is high time Tory MPs recognized Brexit is a “catastrophe.”

Past time for sensible MPs in all parties to admit Brexit is a catastrophe, come together In new party if need be, and reverse it #euref19

He called on MPs to form a new party that could “reverse” the outcome of last year’s referendum, in which a majority (52 percent) of Britons voted to leave the European Union.

He singled out pro-EU MPs in the Labour Party, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats, such as Chuka Umunna, Sir Vince Cable, Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan, and Nicholas Soames as potential candidates to spearhead the reversal.

Chapman also called on “sensible journos” writing for Brexit-supporting newspapers to admit that the impact of the UK exiting the 27-member-state bloc would “destroy lives of many of their readers.”

Also: well past time for sensible journos on papers that supported Brexit to admit it is going to destroy lives of many of their readers https://t.co/IqurZViyZc

He suggest some newspapers only championed Brexit to take revenge on former Prime Minister David Cameron and his Leveson inquiry into press ethics and standards, in the wake of the 2011 phone-hacking scandal.

Finally (for now): time to admit many Brexit supporting editors would have done anything to destroy Cameron purely because of Leveson https://t.co/MMuLNDmQMp